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'Dale' footage is unbelievable, unbelievably moving

By Marty Smith
ESPN.com

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Dale Earnhardt is one of the most intriguing personalities in American history, let alone American sports history. "I'd made up my mind, I was going to quit racing. That's what I wanted to do." -- Richard Childress Folks are captivated by his life and death whether or not they respect or understand what he did. He was Elvis and John Wayne and Steve McQueen and Christa McAuliffe all melded into one bad SOB. Hence, doing justice to his story is no simple task. Producing a movie on his lif ...

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